Listen to the entire Hobbit soundtrack by Howard Shore here

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey heads to theaters on December 14, 2012. The soundtrack by Howard Shore will be available on December 10th; however, that doesn’t mean you can’t listen to it now. So what’s the catch? Well, you’ll have to listen to the whole soundtrack to listen to the whole thing, which means you can’t skip tracks. If you’re a fan of Howard Shore’s score of Lord of the Rings, then you shouldn’t have a problem.

The Hobbit soundtrack does bring back memorable themes from the Lord of the Rings trilogy, like the track “Concerning Hobbits” from The Fellowship of the Ring.